The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown